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We discuss the center of the Milky Way as a prototype of galactic centers, and argue that there are no important generic differences between the centers of normal and active galaxies. While the Galactic Center currently does not harbor an active nucleus, there are strong indications of an upcoming phase of much higher activity. The observed physical status seems to imply that currently accretion is occuring in an advection-dominated mode.
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Duschl, W.J. (1997). The galactic center — a laboratory for AGN. In: Meyer-Hofmeister, E., Spruit, H. (eds) Accretion Disks — New Aspects. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 487. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0105840
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